Start the Revolution Without Me

Start the Revolution Without Me

1970 · 90 min · EN · 5.8 (31 votes)
Dir. Bud Yorkin · Starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Victor Spinetti · Music John Addison

Gene Wilder... wilder than ever!

ComedyHistory

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.

VIBE

A whirlwind of mistaken identities and aristocratic absurdity set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Expect broad humor, rapid-fire gags, and a delightful sense of chaos as twins grapple with destiny and destiny grapples with them.

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